Open for buisness - US Bailout store

With the economy in trouble, over 500K jobs cut last month (the largest job loss since 1974) and the forthcoming Obama stimulus package (predicted at 1 Trillion over the next two years) the government gives the impression that it is open for business, and their business is giving away money. Sign me up...

I am with some analysts (that know a lot more than I do) that suggest that tax cuts and incentives for business should be what President Bush should be concentrating on for his time left in office and what President-elect Obama should have his economic team working on for his first months in office instead of a large gift basket. But since tax cuts give the appearance of favoring the rich, and the democrats will be running two of the three wings of the insane asylum (no offense to the authentically crazy folks out there) it is almost given that there will be a lot of money passing around. At least the typical government middle level bureaucrats will have guaranteed employment. For any college graduates out there, consider a career as a community manager I have a feeling it will be the hot ticket.

One thing to consider is a lesson from our friends in Japan. When they faced a similar economic situation in the 90s they too dumped 1 Trillion dollars into thier economy they did not have the success that Obama and Biden are envisioning. Obama has said that he plans on creating a government works project unseen since the construction of the interstate system. Since we probably don't need a new road system, and since the railways don't seem to be overcrowded what does the upcoming administration plan to do with this money.

I imagine there are congressmen salivating over where to spend this money. I can see it now, Barney Frank at his desk by candle light scribbling away drafting his list like a five year old boy writing Santa Claus. Maybe Nacy Pelosi will ask for an upgrade for every government building in San Francisco, adding a third bathroom on each floor. After all it is unfair to ask the transvestites to choose between Male and Female. Even though he is no longer a Congressman I am sure Al Gore will get into the action. A little birdie told me he wants to fund a project to create a large vacuum cleaner to suck up all the pollution from over Las Angeles, Chicago, and New Jersey.

I would like to submit my own suggestion. If we must spend the money (give it away) then lets use it for good. How many abandoned buildings are there out there that need to be revitalized or just torn down? Can we get rid of the graffiti that spoils the cityscape? I don't mean any street art, but the gang graffiti or the senseless "bubba loves betty sue" scrawled over the hundreds of overpasses. How about that poor crying Indian from the commercials, he is no doubt still crying as he travels around our cities, roads, and waterways. Maybe we can actually get some folks out there to clean the used condoms, cigarette butts, Coke cans, and bumpers off of the side of the road or the dead bodies out of the rivers, or the nearly re-possessed cars out of the hundreds of reservoirs and swamps in Florida, Texas, and Illinois.

Of course all those soon to be unemployed stock brokers will avoid this type of work, but maybe if we cancel this auto-industry bailout we can count on the 700,000 workers that will leave looking for work. Then again this might be the break that many of the illegal immigrates have been waiting for.